Facebook led Opelousas city marshals this week to a suspect they sought in connection with an episode of domestic violence.

During that episode, the man allegedly cut his grandmother’s throat with a broken beer bottle, said Deputy Paul Angelle of the marshal’s office. The woman, who required stitches, called the office Saturday night and the search for the suspect, Donte Fontenot, began.

Marshal Paul Paul Mouton and his deputies searched locations in Church Point and Sunset without success. A scan of Fontenot’s Facebook social media page showed that the suspect had checked in at his Church Point home. Marshals tracked him down in that town with the help of the local police department.

“After about a half hour on the phone, Marshal Mouton convinced the young man that nothing or no one was going to hurt him, Fontenot was taken into custody,” Angelle said.

Law enforcement officers took him to the St. Landry Parish Jail, where he was charged with five bench warrants, domestic abuse aggravated assault, aggravated battery, two counts of simple battery involving domestic violence, aggravated second degree battery and hold for deputies.

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